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Kaltura Delivers Record-Scale Live Streaming for the 2026 FIFA World Cup, Previews Agentic Avatar Experiences for Live Sports

  • Kaltura delivered live TV streaming for the 2026 FIFA World Cup, supporting approximately 40 million registered devices across six production environments in Europe, Asia, & the Middle East.
  • The tournament represented the largest live streaming event in Kaltura's history, with demand 86% higher than the 2022 FIFA World Cup.
  • The platform carried over 1.3 billion playback sessions, peaked at 7 million concurrent sessions, & monitored 30 million devices daily during active play.
  • Kaltura re-architected its media & telecom platform from a monolithic backend to independent microservices to enable independent scaling & failure containment for unprecedented scale.
  • AI agents were deployed for the first time at a major sporting event to manage operations, performing environment health summarization, match-aware monitoring, & on-demand investigation.
  • AI agents reduced manual reporting time from hours to minutes, allowing engineering teams to focus on operational decisions rather than data gathering.
  • Kaltura is extending its Agentic Avatar capabilities to live sports to provide real-time, conversational guidance via voice, text, & visual avatars.
  • Agentic Avatars will enable broadcasters to guide content discovery, personalize viewing experiences, drive service adoption, & support viewers in real time.
  • Tomer Rabinowicz, VP R&D Media & Telecom at Kaltura, stated that AI agents allowed the company to stay ahead of demand & that Agentic Avatars are turning intelligence toward the viewer.